Professor

Stephen Peter Stich

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2009
Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Exposed problems in the folk-psychological notion of contentful states. Developed a systematic theory of mind reading. Made insightful assessments of competing cognitive architectures such as classical computationalism and connectionism. Undermined philosophical reliance on intuition, illuminated the sources of moral judgment, and co-created the new subfield of experimental philosophy.
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